psychological thriller

Velvicide

By Alan Ng | February 2026

Writer/director Kenneth Perkins’s Velvicide is about a young woman trying to move forward after a terrifying experience, only to realize that telling…

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Writer/director Kenneth Perkins's Velvicide is about a young woman trying to move forward after a terrifying experience, only to realize that telling her...

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In Islam Gimazov’s Guilt Lies Still, a serial killer is loose in the city again, and a frustrated Detective Mikey Amato (Feodor Dolan) has reached a...

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Enter a much darker wonderland than you could imagine in the outstanding neo-noir Misdirection, written by Lacy McClory and directed by Kevin Lewis. Sara...

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In Acts of Love, director Jeppe Rønde drops a match into a powder keg of faith, family, and “therapy,” then watches who’s left standing when the...

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Just when you thought that you’ve seen it all, that cinema has bombarded you into submission with its predictable story lines, flat VFX, and pandering...

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Co-writer/director Marcello Mantero's Marion's Lilies is a lean, nasty little thriller about what happens when grief stops asking polite questions and...

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Writer-director Ari Briskman's Molt drops us into a mystery that feels like a late-night brain bender that somehow crawled into the real world. Kevin...

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DANCES WITH FILMS NY 2026 FILM REVIEW! Writer/director Dominik Sedlar's WWII drama Vindicta follows Hannah (Devon Ross), a young Jewish woman whose parents...

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Writer-director Andrew Vogel's Herman is a bleak, introspective psychological thriller that is less interested in shocks than in moral reckoning. This is a...

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In writer-director Tony Rakshith's short film Double Edged, a damaged man sits at the edge of oblivion until an unexpected call cuts through the...

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